The Fashion of Wearing Birds
It is estimated that the women of this country are responsible for the destruction of 10,000,000 birds every year. The birds, many of them song birds, are used for the purpose of disfiguring ladies' hats. A writer in the London Truth says that the queen contemplates issuing a note "censuring the barbarous and vulgar fashion which so many women have lately adopted of wearing the bodies of birds, or parts of their bodies, on bonnets, hats, and dresses. Her Majesty strongly disapproves of this practice, which of late has greatly increased, which is daily increasing, and which most assuredly ought to be abolished." But those who follow that fashion would adopt another equally abominable, if that were abolished.